Notes for Thomas SWANN

Notes for Thomas SWANN

William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol 3, No. 2.
(Oct., 1894), pp. 81-96.

In March, 1655, the Grand Assembly, con-
sisting of the Governor, Council and Burgesses, pardoned(2).
"Leift.-Coll.
Thos. Swann, accused and impeached for the death of his servant, one
Elizabeth
Buck", the ordinary course by petition to the chancellor being
impossible, as
"this collony is not as yet settled with such officers as belong to
passing
such pardon, and noe publick seale being in the countrey."

A History of Chapman and Alexander Families

Col. Thomas Swann was a burgess, also a member of the Council of Sir
William Berkley (1626).
The Colonel was married five times. He died Sept. 16, 1680 and is buried
at Swann's Point, in a field near the river, where his tombstone, which
bears the Coat of Arms, may still be seen.

Historical and Genealogical Notes; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 6, No. 2

Swann's Point- William Swann patented 1,200 acres here, Nov. 5, 1635,
"bounded West from Smiths Mount to the half way neck."
This land was due him "for bringing four and twenty persons into the
Colony." His son, Col. Thomas Swann, later received a grant for the same
land, the original patent having lapsed.

Historical and Genealogical Notes; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 6, No. 2

SWANN.--Col. Thomas Swann, of the Virginia Council, was son of William
Swann (Land Register). In the pedigree of the Swanns, in Berry's
"Kentish Pedigrees," William Swann was fourth son of Sir Francis Swann,
of Denton Court, in Kent, who married, February 21, 1598-'99, Dorothy,
daughter of Sir Edward Boys. The arms on Col. Swann's tomb at Swann's
Point, Surry county, are the same as in Berry.